AEU unveils claim for new Victorian teachers deal; Abbott leaves the door open on IR reform; FWA updates ruling on long service leave cashing out; and Skills body declared a state system employer.
Tasmania's peak union body and a key Labor committee have called on the Bartlett Government to withdraw the state's referral of its IR powers to Canberra.
Fair Work Australia has cut in half a worker's redundancy payout after finding his employer was the "moving force" in securing him another job, but rejected the employer's argument that its parlous financial position also justified a reduction.
Workplace Relations Minister Chris Evans has today seized on calls by senior Coalition figures and backbenchers for further IR change as evidence of the Opposition's ongoing support for Work Choices, in a week in which Coalition Leader Tony Abbott hosed down the need for reform.
IR shake-up recommended for TAFEs; IR barristers take silk; Cleaners' portable long service bill through; Dalla-Riva new Victorian IR Minister; and Recognition for McCallum
A mining worker on a fly-in, fly-out roster has been awarded $22,000 after the Federal Court found he was not a casual despite being engaged and paid as one and that his employer couldn't offset a component of the all-up rate it paid him against the annual leave he was owed.
A Fair Work Australia full bench has rejected both employer group and union bids to vary key modern awards to ensure nationally consistent penalties apply to work performed on Christmas Day.
An employer has successfully varied its enterprise agreement to reduce minimum shift lengths for part of its workforce, after Fair Work Australia found the change was consistent with the public interest and BOOT.
Parramatta Leagues Club's sacking of its former chief financial officer for issuing an unauthorised $39,000 cheque just after a board change that resulted in the mid-season dumping of long-serving CEO Denis Fitzgerald was not unfair, Fair Work Australia has ruled.
